SOLVED - Focus Merge causes C drive to fill up to 100%

[mrsurf]

hi everyone,

when i try to focus merge 7 photos, it took 100% charge of my C hardrive.

i've up the swap on windows, move it to the L drive.

i've make a symbolic link from c:\users\profile\appdata\affinity to L:\ (have more place)

and it sill put the c:\ on 100% charge 

do some one have a tip for me ??

[Pšenda]

I would try to see which file/directory is being worked with. Click to Ouvrir le Moniteur... 

[David in Яuislip]

According to this 

the temporary files are written to %appdata%. Can you enter %appdata% into a file explorer window and see where it goes? Can you then go down to the Affinity area \AppData\Roaming\Affinity\Photo\1.0\autosave, click properties and see that it is on your L: drive which would confirm that the symlink is working

Apart from that, your system has 12 GB of ram so it should not need to write temporary files at all

I have just done a 7 image focus merge using tiff files 31.8 MB, 4609 x 2244 pixels each. The process took 7 seconds, nothing was written into windows/temp which I have relocated to the D drive, the autosave folder showed a file of 0 bytes. The CPU briefly hit 100% but the C disc usage didn't go above 0

[mrsurf]

Hi guys,

thanks for the help and answer.

It seams that was more a windows issue than affinity.

i've deactivate windows swap then reactivate it. and no more hdd to 100%

maybe the swap goes corrupt some times.

Ps i don't know how to mark it Resolved ??

Edited August 16, 2020 by mrsurf
addendum

[mrsurf]

damned, same thing popup again Hdd 100% but while composing panorama.

i don't know what is personabackstore.dat ??

but it is written by system and photo ..???

[David in Яuislip]

Try Googling personabackstore.dat , apparently it's used when the ram is full but your memory usage shows 64 - 66%.

How about checking how much memory Photo is allowed, if this is too low it may explain why the program is using the disc?

[David in Яuislip]

Another suggestion, change the title to something like

Focus Merge causes C drive to fill up to 100%

[mrsurf]

On 8/16/2020 at 1:59 PM, David in Яuislip said:

Another suggestion, change the title to something like

Focus Merge causes C drive to fill up to 100%

Hi,

Can't change the title..

and you were right, that was my Ram usage limit i vhave to move up, as in a test i slow it too mutch.

everithing ok now

thanks everybody.

[David in Яuislip]

2 minutes ago, mrsurf said:

Can't change the title..

I thought that it was possible although I've never done it myself. Glad it is fixed

[walt.farrell]

14 minutes ago, David in Яuislip said:

I thought that it was possible although I've never done it myself.

It is possible, in general (Click Edit at the bottom of the first post in the thread, update the Title, Save). But it's also a function that can be restricted to, e.g., users who have made a certain number of posts or who have been registered for a certain amount of time. There are several forum functions that are restricted in that way, unless a moderator decides to override them for a user.

[Pšenda]

55 minutes ago, mrsurf said:

that was my Ram usage limit

Just out of curiosity, how much was set? And was it the default value set by the application, or did you change it yourself?

[mrsurf]

On 8/21/2020 at 3:23 PM, Pšenda said:

Just out of curiosity, how much was set? And was it the default value set by the application, or did you change it yourself?

yes i did change it, the minimal value was 1024

[firstdefence]

On 8/21/2020 at 1:25 PM, mrsurf said:

Can't change the title..

@mrsurf Hope you don’t mind but I’ve changed the title to reflect the post status and more accurately describe the issue for you.

For future reference, you have to long-hold on the title and it will change to an input box where you can amend the title and add things like “solved"

[Alfred]

3 hours ago, firstdefence said:

Hope you don’t mind but I’ve changed the title

Ooh, magical powers!

3 hours ago, firstdefence said:

you have to long-hold on the title and it will change to an input box

You can also amend the title when editing the original post, but the long-hold route is obviously quicker and easier.

[R C-R]

4 hours ago, Alfred said:

Ooh, magical powers!

I wonder about that, too. I thought only ythe OP & the staff could change topic titles.

[lepr]

59 minutes ago, R C-R said:

I wonder about that, too. I thought only ythe OP & the staff could change topic titles.

He's not the OP, so he must be...

[Pšenda]

11 hours ago, mrsurf said:

yes i did change it, the minimal value was 1024

If I understand correctly, even though your desktop has 12 GB of RAM, you have allowed the application to use only 1 GB, and you are surprised that the lack of usable memory must be replaced by an enormous write of data to disk. What was the reason?

Maybe Serif should cancel this option, or give a warning about it, because it only causes complications for inexperienced users.

[mrsurf]

On 8/23/2020 at 6:47 PM, Pšenda said:

If I understand correctly, even though your desktop has 12 GB of RAM, you have allowed the application to use only 1 GB, and you are surprised that the lack of usable memory must be replaced by an enormous write of data to disk. What was the reason?

Maybe Serif should cancel this option, or give a warning about it, because it only causes complications for inexperienced users.

No, at the beginning, affinity memory was up to 10G and always using the Swap.

so i tried many test, desabling the windows swap, nothing.

changing Affinity ram amount nothing

SSD enhancement

and so long, so that i forget to revert affinity Ram to it previous state.

[Pšenda]

1 hour ago, mrsurf said:

affinity memory was up to 10G

This is interesting because I have a default value set for all Affinity applications and on all desktops, which corresponds to the available amount of RAM.

 

1 hour ago, mrsurf said:

and always using the Swap

This is a matter for the OS, not Affinity, and if enabled, it is of course used for higher memory requirements that are no longer physically available.